Resumo de The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

If you do, chances are that you, according to the logic -- or lack thereof -- of Douglas Adams' zany 5-book trilogy -- are thus very well prepared to escape from the Earth one terrible Thursday afternoon and be whisked away shortly before the Vogons demolish the planet to make way for a new hyperspace bypass.
It also helps a great deal if one of your best friends turns out to be an alien from Betelguese and not an out of work actor from Guilford. It also helps a great deal more if your friend is named Ford Prefect and is a roving researcher for that handy and impractical reference work, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Perhaps one of the best-selling references ever -- beating out the Encyclopedia Galactica and the memoirs of adult entertainer Eccentrica Gallumbits from Eroticon Six -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy will be the repository of knowledge and wisdom even as you, like Adams' hapless protagonist Arthur Dent, criss-cross the galaxy in stolen spacecraft, wander through weird and exotic worlds (including primitive Earth), and meet strange and fascinating beings such as:
Zaphod Beeblebrox, rogue, con artist, ladies' man, and infamous party crasher (and President of the Galaxy!)
Trillian, aka Tricia McMillan, a beautiful girl Arthur had met at a party in Islington and went off with a two-headed party crasher who claimed to be from outer space before Arthur could ask her for her phone number.
Slartibartfast, the designer of the Earth, whose proudest achievement was earning an award for designing the Norweigian fjords.
Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, commander of the Vogon Construction Fleet detailed to demolish the late, mostly harmless Earth; a bureaucrat so rigid that he wouldn't lift a finger to save his grandmother from from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without going through a lot of paperwork...and trust me, Vogon paperwork rituals ensure certain devourment for Vogon grandmothers.
The late comic author first conceived this mix of science fiction/parody as a BBC radio series which was so successful it spun off five novels, a TV miniseries (which has aired here on PBS stations), abridged audio albums, and interactive software. This Wings Books omnibus edition contains the five novels of the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Trilogy -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe, and Everything, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless. It also comes with a bonus -- but less funny -- story, Young Zaphod Plays It Safe.
So if you want to survive the Earth's demise and see the galaxy, make sure you are wearing something more substantial than pajamas and a ratty bathrobe, watch the skies for flying saucers, start worrying when all the dolphins on the planet vanish, and keep your eyes peeled for an electronic gizmo with the words Don't Panic printed in large friendly letters on the cover.
And for Pete's sake, always, always know where your towel is!

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